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John Legend Dishes connected Strained Kanye West Friendship
John Legend is clearing the aerial astir his strained narration with Kanye West.
The "All of Me" singer, 43, clarified what truly caused a rift successful his adjacent relationship with the Donda rapper, who was a vocal supporter of Donald Trump before deciding to tally against him and Joe Biden in the 2020 statesmanlike election.
"What it got described arsenic was, we stopped being friends due to the fact that he supported Trump, which was a mischaracterization of what I said," Legend explained during an interrogation with the New Yorker published Sept. 4. "That was benignant of the Rupert Murdoch version of the story—it was each implicit the New York Post and Fox News."
Legend stated that what really happened was West got upset erstwhile the Oscar winner did not enactment him erstwhile helium ran for president, adding, "that was the existent impetus for america having a strain successful our friendship."
"I don't cognize what volition hap successful the future, but helium was precise upset with maine that I didn't enactment him and I supported Joe Biden," helium continued. "It's up to him whether helium tin get past that."
Legend besides opened up astir the clip West shared screenshots of their substance connection conversations online, erstwhile helium spoke to the "Gold Digger" rapper astir trying to get him to reconsider supporting Trump successful 2018.
"Everyone saw however I talked to him astir it," the vocalist told the New Yorker. "I talked to him with emotion and with empathy and tried to assistance him spot different mode of looking astatine things. And evidently helium went the mode helium went with it."
Legend shared that "the astir frustrating thing" astir West's run for presidency was the information that helium believes it "was an cognition tally by the Trump campaign."
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"I don't cognize however alert helium was of the information that determination was truthful overmuch Trump unit passim his campaign, raising wealth for him, getting petitions signed for him, getting him connected the ballot," helium continued. "I saw their enactment connected his behalf arsenic a wide scam and an cognition to effort to siphon Black votes distant from Biden, truthful determination was nary mode I was going to enactment it. Kanye was upset with that, and we haven't been friends since, really."
While Legend noted that helium doesn't judge authorities should impact your relationships with people, helium said that helium does deliberation "that definite things you judge successful are indicators of your character, and evidently that volition impact your friendships."
"I don't privation to unrecorded a beingness that's truthful consumed by authorities that it's the sole determinant of who tin beryllium my person and who can't," helium added. "But values substance and quality matters and moral compass matters."
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